CRISTAL:

The CRISTAL system was selected as a prototype development
platform for CRM applications because of the capabilities it has
for integrating, managing, and manipulating text and image files.
CRISTAL is a high level programming environment that capitalizes
on proven, contemporary computer hardware and software
technologies to facilitate the transmission and combination of
complex graphic data forms.  

As an application development environment for historic
preservation, the strength of CRISTAL lies in its use of
interactive computer graphics techniques.  These techniques not
only facilitate access to a broad range of information types, but
can enhance information synthesis and provide a foundation for
making better informed cultural resource management decisions. 
The utilization of a graphics environment for developing and
studying resource conservation strategies represents a
potentially powerful strategy for giving regulatory bodies,
design and planning professionals, developers, and the public a
means of more accurately visualizing the increasingly complex
issues that must be addressed in managing historic resources.  In
an environment that permits image manipulation and graphic
processing, a thorough examination of design strategies is
possible through visual simulation techniques.  

<dfile11>   Case Studies
<dfile38>   CRISTAL: Hardware and Software
<dfile40>   CRISTAL: Objectives
<dfile41>   CRISTAL: Description
<dfile43>   CRISTAL: 4 Preservation Issues
<dfile44>   CRISTAL: Resource Documentation
<dfile58>   CRISTAL: Attributes 1.
<dfile60>   CRISTAL: Limitations 1.
<cfile24>   CRISTAL Data Links